Focus Area 1 - Interventions by Sector

Healthcare Delivery System

  • Identify and implement evidence- based practices and environmental strategies that promote MEB health.
  • Support and facilitate quality improvement of evidence-based practices and environmental strategies that promote MEB health.

Employers, Businesses, and Unions

  • Promote workplace and employee wellness efforts.
  • Educate employees about importance of MEB health for overall wellness.
  • Support evidence-informed policies to promote employee wellness (e.g., flextime).

Media

  • Develop and support social marketing campaigns to promote activities that enhance MEB health.
  • Educate communities about the return on investment of MEB health promotion.

Academia

  • Work with communities to implement and evaluate evidence-informed policies and evidence-based practices related to MEB health promotion.

Community-Based Health and Human Service Organizations

  • Use evidence based practices that promote MEB health.
  • Educate lawmakers and advocate for funding of evidence-informed policies and practices that promote MEB health.
  • Identify and deliver curricula for children and youth to enhance their social skills, emotional competence, conflict resolution and coping skills.

Other Governmental Agencies

  • Identify evidence-informed policies and evidence-based practices that promote MEB health.
  • Educate professionals and policymakers on these policies and practices.

Governmental Public Health

  • Identify evidence-informed policies and evidence-based practices that promote MEB health.
  • Educate professionals and policymakers on these policies and practices.
  • Expand efforts with DOH Tobacco Control Program and OMH Personalized Recovery Oriented Services Program (PROS).

Non-Governmental Public Health

  • Use evidence based practices that promote MEB health.
  • Educate lawmakers and advocate for funding of evidence-informed policies and practices that promote MEB health.
  • Identify and deliver curricula for children and adults to enhance their social skills, emotional competence, conflict resolution and coping skills.

Policymakers and Elected Officials

  • Identify evidence-informed policies and evidence-based practices that promote MEB health.

Communities

  • Advocate and support direct evidence-based practice educational services.

Philanthropy

  • Support social marketing campaigns that support MEB health promotion.

Note: The Prevention Agenda 2013-2017 has been extended to 2018 to align its timeline with other state and federal health care reform initiatives.